Prison Images
General Information
- Original Title
- Gefängnisbilder
- Author/Creator
- Farocki, Harun, director.
- Subtitles
- English
- Published
- Germany, 2000.
- Physical Description
- Blu-Ray (60 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00005667
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Images from prisons, quotes from Robert Bresson and Jean Genet as well as documentaries from the Nazi period exist in dialogue with footage from surveillance cameras of maximum-security prisons in the United States. Prison Images offers a look at the new control technologies, at personal identification devices, electronic ankle bracelets and other tracking devices. Cinema has always been attracted to prisons and today's prisons are full of video surveillance cameras. These images are unedited and monotonous; as neither time nor space is compressed, they are particularly well-suited to conveying the state of inactivity into which prisoners are placed as a punitive measure. What kinds of images have been produced by the surveillance cameras and training videos for prison personnel? In Farocki’s film, the penal institution becomes an anthropological laboratory, in which life and death are rehearsed in front of the camera’s unblinking eye.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Title Translation
- Prison Images
- Note
- Film also on HDD Verzio11/12 located: M22 R17 S2 R4
- Library Special Collection
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Call Number | Status | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blu-Ray Disc | OSA Film Library | FL Record 3913 | Available | - | - |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 3913 (HU_OSA_00005667.mp4) | Available | Access Copy, MP4 format |